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HEATHER PASSMORE
Vancouver, Canada
EDUCATION
2004 M.F.A. Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2000 B.F.A. Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 (upcoming), The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2009 Heather Passmore, Babel Art Space, Trondheim, Norway
2009 Disappearing Drawings, Grand Forks Art Gallery, Grand Forks, Canada
2008 Mis-Takes, Struts Gallery, Sackville, Canada
2007 Linoleums, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, Canada
2006 Bikini Project, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
2006 Bikini Project, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canada
2003 In the Kitschy, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge, Canada
2001 In the Kitschy, The Odd Gallery, Dawson City, Canada
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Bearing the Broken Utopian Promise, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Remakes and Readymades, The Khyber ICA, Halifax, Canada
2005 Banlieusard, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Second Thoughts/Gathering Stories, Sunshine Coast Arts Centre, Sechelt, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, touring exhibition by iCI, The Drawing Center, New York
2009 Take Your Time, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2009 The Cast of Shadows, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Flux, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, Canada
2008 Gifted, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada
2008 Slideluck CoCAshow, CoCA Centre on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2008 Donkey Skin, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada
2005 Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2004 Tickle Your Catastrophe, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Pipeline, Counterpublics, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Lucky 13, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Mail Art, The Alternator, Kelowna, Canada
2002 Packaging is Everything, The Tart Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Frank, Design Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS / FELLOWSHIPS
2009 Assistance to Visual Artists: Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Project Assistance for Visual Arts Grant, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2008 Professional Development: Travel Assistance Visual Arts Grant, BC Arts Council
2007 Project Assistance for Visual Arts Grant, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2004 University Graduate Fellowship, UBC
2003 University Graduate Fellowship, UBC
2000 Florence Muriel Smeltzer Scholarship for Demonstrated Ability in Painting, UBC
1999 Undergraduate Scholar Program Scholarship, UBC
1999 Summer Scholarship, UBC
1997 Sunshine Coast Bursary for Arts, UBC
1995 British Columbia Provincial Scholarship Award, Government of BC, Canada
AWARDS / PRIZES
2006 VADA Award, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, Canada
2003 Andrew MacIntosh Memorial Book Prize, MFA prize for best essay, UBC
2002 Ripple Effect Press Anthology Cover Art Competition, First prize winner, Vancouver, Canada
2000 Helen Pitt Award for Fine Arts, UBC
1995 Award for Excellence in Visual Art and English Literature, Elphinstone Secondary, Gibsons
RESIDENCIES
2011 Gestavinnustofa Gilfélagsins á Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
2009 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV), Trondheim, Norway
2007 Orivesi Art College (Oriveden Opisto), Orivesi, Finland
2000 Resident Artist/Mentor. Elphinstone Secondary School, Gibsons, Canada
ARTIST TALKS
2010 Visiting Artist. UBC Okanagan Visiting Artist Lecture Series 2010, Kelowna, Canada
2008 Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada
2007 Visiting Artist. Emily Carr Institute/North Island College, Art Talk Fall Lecture Series, Courtenay
2007 Orivesi Art College, (Oriveden Opisto), Orivesi, Finland
2006 Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
2003 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
COMMUNITY / PUBLIC ART PROJECTS COMMISSIONS / COLLECTIONS AUCTIONS TEACHING ACTIVITY PUBLICATIONS
2008 Exhibition. Burnaby Art Gallery Art in the Libraries Program, Burnaby Public Library
2005 Public Art Commission. SUBcultures Mural Project, UBC, Canada
2003 Painting. Carnegie Centre Centennial Celebration,Vancouver Public Library
2003 Painting. Roberts Creek Community Mandala Project, Roberts Creek, Canada
2000 Painting. Roberts Creek Community Mandala Project, Roberts Creek, Canada
2009 Artist File and Bibliography at ARTEXTE, Montreal, Quebec Canada
2008 Public Collection. SFU Gallery. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
2007 Public Collection. Orivesi College of Art (Oriveden Opisto), Orivesi, Finland
2004/5/6 Private Collections. K. Stoddart, Ph.D. Emeritus, Anthropology and Sociology UBC
2000 Painting Commission. Elphinstone Secondary School, Gibsons, Canada
1998 Painting Commission. Arts Undergraduate Society Buchanen Mural Competition, UBC
1995 Painting Commission. Elphinstone Secondary School, Gibsons, Canada
2009 The Sweetest Little Thing. Struts Gallery 10th Annual Auction Fundraiser, Sackville, Canada
2008 The Cheaper Show No. 8, Vancouver, Canada
2007 B.C. Binning and Dorothy Somerset Gala Soiree & Silent Auction, UBC, Vancouver
2006 Western Front 33rd Anniversary Art Auction. The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Mirror Mirror; Self Portraits Auction and Exhibition, Richmond Art Gallery, Canada
2001 Emerging Artists' Auction, Hyperspace Studio, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Hired to sessional pool of Kwantlen University College Fine Arts Department, Surrey, Canada
2007 Visual Arts Instructor. Orivesi Art College (Oriveden Opisto), Orivesi, Finland
2006 Hired as a Sessional Instructor for Introductory Studio Art VISA 183, UBC
2005 Guest Lecture for Advanced Painting and Drawing VISA 481, UBC
2001-4 Private Drawing Instructor. Hired by Dorinda Neave, Art History Faculty, Capilano University
1993 Teaching Certificate and Practicum, Laara WilliamSen School of Art, Gibsons, Canada
Bearing the Broken Utopian Promise Exhibition Catalogue, A Space Gallery, 2009.
The Cast of Shadows Parallel Guidebook #3, Exhibition Catalogue, Access Gallery, 2009.
"Second Growth" Artwork. Article; Art and the Imaginative Promise, Issue #2, 2007.
Linoleums Exhibition Catalogue, Campbell River Art Gallery, 2007.
Heather Passmore -The Bikini Project Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery 101, 2006.
Heather Passmore -Bikini Project Exhibition Catalogue, Richmond Art Gallery, 2006.
Banlieusard Exhibition Catalogue, Library and Archives Canada Publication, Artspeak, 2005.
"GREEN" Photography. RIPE Magazine, Summer 2005, 28-29.
Tickle Your Catastrophe Exhibition Catalogue, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, 2004.
Post Script 11 Review of "Emergency Measures", Artspeak Gallery, 2003.
I Fall to Pieces Catalogue Essay for "Lets Get Lost", Helen Pitt Gallery, 2003.
"Untitled" Book Cover. All Wound Up: Alternative Writing from BC, Ripple Effect Press, 2002.
Art and Artists of the 20th Century Exhibition Catalogue, 2001.
Small: the Art of the Miniature Exhibition Catalogue. Vancouver East Cultural Centre, 2000.
Frank Exhibition Catalogue, Design Arts Gallery, UBC, 2000.
"SFU Gallery Features Mattress Masterpieces" The Georgia Straight. Oct 29-Nov 5, 2009, 58.
"The Art of Chilling Out" Burnaby Now. Nov 4, 2009.
"Preview -Toronto. Rosla Aslani/Heather Passmore" Canadian Art. Vol. 26, No. 2. Summer 2009, 29.
Dault, Gary Michael. "Roja Aslani and Heather Passmore..." The Globe and Mail. June 27, 2009.
Skoglund, Inni. “Tre år med Babel-Kunst” Udresfeavifen. April 14, 2009.
Walkiewicz, Katherine. "Art Show 'Gifted' Doubles as..." The Martlet. Dec 4, 2008.
"Mis-Takes Explores the Politics of Taste, Art" Burnaby Now. Nov. 1, 2008, A17.
DeGrass, Jan. "Passmore Captures Pepper Spraying..." The Coast Reporter. July 19, 2008.
Nagel, Tekla. "(Un)covering Gender Roles" The Journal, Queen's University. Jan. 25, 2008.
"Pick of the Week" New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal. Jan. 19, 2008.
"Vancouver Artist to Install Exhibition Entitled Mis-takes..." Sackville Tribune Post. Jan. 16, 2008.
"Mis-takes on Display" Amherst Daily News. Jan 14, 2008.
"Art Exhibition..." Campbell River Courier-Islander. Sept. 26, 2007.
"The Bikini Project" Live Television Interview. Rogers Television 22 Ottawa. May 18, 2006.
Laszo, Krisztina. "Classified Materials..." AABC Newsletter. Vol. 16, No. 1. Winter 2006.
Hoekstra, Matthew. "The Bikini Project" The Richmond Review. Mar. 16, 2006, 1, 16.
Bui, Mai. "Living Histories: Public Art Paints the SUB" The Ubyssey. Jan. 10, 2006, 4-5.
Peck, Aaron. "Archive This..." Doppelganger Magazine. Issue 3, Jan 2006.
Kamping-Carde, Leigh. "De-Classified: Everything in its Right..." The Ubyssey. Oct. 25, 2005.
Kwan, Vanessa. "Classified Materials" The Georgia Straight. Oct. 20, 2005.
Degrass, Jan. "Elphi student at VAG" Coast Reporter. Oct. 14, 2005, B10.
Pang, Yumimi. "Passmore's Project Underway" The Ubyssey. Feb. 1, 2005, 5.
"UBC MFA Graduate Exhibition" Canadian Art. Fall 2004.
"Tickled Think" The Georgia Straight. Sept. 16-23, 2004, 74.
"Toyland" Vancouver Sun. Jan. 22-29, 2004.
Young, Samantha. "Lucky 13" Three Sixty Seven. 2004.
Barker, Terry. "Creek Mandala Stands Test of Time" Coast Reporter. Dec. 13, 2003, B17.
Davidson, Dan. "Yukoner Challenges the Ideas of Art" Whitehorse Star. Nov. 21, 2001, 18.
Berger, Palma. "In the Kitschy" Klondike Sun. Nov. 23, 2001.
Stech, Diana. "UBC's Up-and-Coming" The Ubyssey. Vol. 82, Issue 47. April 4, 2001, 19-22.
"Second Thoughts" Television Interview. Coast Cable T.V. Sept. 2000.
"Local Artists Offer Up Interesting Work..." The Coast Independent. Sept. 10, 2000, 17.
Mossop, Michelle. “Grain” The Ubyssey. Vol 81, Issue 34. Feb. 8, 2000, 9.
Yung, Regina. "Looking For..." The Ubyssey Magazine. Vol. 81, Issue 6. Oct. 1, 1999, 12.